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Rags to Riches #63

My family origan class='highlight'>inan>ated from Derby and my parents were married there an class='highlight'>inan> July 1952.  Mum was 19 and dad was 36 so quite a bit older.  They both lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derby and were very arty; my dad went to the Derby Sketchan class='highlight'>inan>g Club an class='highlight'>inan> his free time and my mum attended art college.  I’m not sure where they met but it was either at somethan class='highlight'>inan>g art related or at a dance, as was usual an class='highlight'>inan> those days.  My dad was a sculptor by trade; I than class='highlight'>inan>k his an class='highlight'>inan>terest was sparked by seean class='highlight'>inan>g all the beautiful alabaster an class='highlight'>inan> Italian churches duran class='highlight'>inan>g the war. My parents on their weddan class='highlight'>inan>g day - 1952   after the Second World War he set up his own busan class='highlight'>inan>ess makan class='highlight'>inan>g alabaster lamps, bowls and candles...

Skools out for Summer #16

When Hugo and Emily Meynell built Hoar Cross Hall it an class='highlight'>inan>cluded a whole estate with it, namely kitchen gardens, greenhouses, stables, a farm and cottages. Old Hall (their origan class='highlight'>inan>al home) was also on the estate and was accessed via a private road, which ran from the maan class='highlight'>inan> road. By the time the seventies came along the stable block and Old Hall were private houses and another part of Old Hall had been made an class='highlight'>inan>to a children’s home. Emily Meynell had started this home an class='highlight'>inan> the Victorian days, callan class='highlight'>inan>g it ‘The home of the Good Shepherd’ but it was for boys only at that time. When we were at the Hall it was a mixed home and run by a husband and wife couple. They used to...

Skools out for summer #13

...) and for an class='highlight'>livan class='highlight'>inan>gan> an class='highlight'>inan> a stately home. (This was from the teachers too!) My concentration was awful, my memory not much better and I tended to daydream a lot, then I wouldn’t know what was goan class='highlight'>inan>g on an class='highlight'>inan> the lessons, which caused a lot of anxiety for me. I have san class='highlight'>inan>ce discovered that I have moderate aDHD which explaan class='highlight'>inan>s a lot about the way I am and defan class='highlight'>inan>itely explaan class='highlight'>inan>s why I was so bad at school work. My mother even sent me for an IQ test which proved slightly above average; this left her baffled by my awful school reports which steadily grew worse each year. as a child my maths was also terrible so my mum got a private tutor an class='highlight'>inan> to help me out. If I didn’t know the a...

RaGS TO RICHES! #15

...RaGS TO RICHES:  My parents were married an class='highlight'>inan> Derby an class='highlight'>inan> July 1952.  Mum was 19 and dad was 36 so quite a bit older.  They both lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derby and were very arty; my dad went to the Derby Sketchan class='highlight'>inan>g Club an class='highlight'>inan> his free time and my mum attended art college.  I’m not sure where they met but it was either at somethan class='highlight'>inan>g art related or at a dance, as was usual an class='highlight'>inan> those days.  My dad was a sculptor by trade; I than class='highlight'>inan>k his an class='highlight'>inan>terest was sparked by seean class='highlight'>inan>g all the beautiful alabaster an class='highlight'>inan> Italian churches duran class='highlight'>inan>g the war.  after the war he set up his own busan class='highlight'>inan>ess makan class='highlight'>inan>g alabaster lamps, bowls and candlesticks among other than class='highlight'>inan>gs (see header picture).  He would go to the alabast...

Rags to Riches #12

...RaGS TO RICHES:     My family origan class='highlight'>inan>ated from Derby and my parents were married there an class='highlight'>inan> July 1952.  Mum was 19 and dad was 36 so quite a bit older.  They both lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derby and were very arty; my dad went to the Derby Sketchan class='highlight'>inan>g Club an class='highlight'>inan> his free time and my mum attended art college.  I’m not sure where they met but it was either at somethan class='highlight'>inan>g art related or at a dance, as was usual an class='highlight'>inan> those days.  My dad was a sculptor by trade; I than class='highlight'>inan>k his an class='highlight'>inan>terest was sparked by seean class='highlight'>inan>g all the beautiful alabaster an class='highlight'>inan> Italian churches duran class='highlight'>inan>g the war.  after the war he set up his own busan class='highlight'>inan>ess makan class='highlight'>inan>g alabaster lamps, bowls and candlesticks among other than class='highlight'>inan>gs (see header...

Rags to Riches #14

...RaGS TO RICHES:      My family origan class='highlight'>inan>ated from Derby and my parents were married there an class='highlight'>inan> July 1952. Mum was 19 and dad was 36 so quite a bit older. They both lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derby and were very arty; my dad went to the Derby Sketchan class='highlight'>inan>g Club an class='highlight'>inan> his free time and my mum attended art college. I’m not sure where they met but it was either at somethan class='highlight'>inan>g art related or at a dance, as was usual an class='highlight'>inan> those days. My dad was a sculptor by trade; I than class='highlight'>inan>k his an class='highlight'>inan>terest was sparked by seean class='highlight'>inan>g all the beautiful alabaster an class='highlight'>inan> Italian churches duran class='highlight'>inan>g the war. after the war he set up his own busan class='highlight'>inan>ess makan class='highlight'>inan>g alabaster lamps, bowls and candlesticks among other than class='highlight'>inan>gs (see header picture)....